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Jackie Cochran's husband, famed Financier Floyd Odlum, had been dickering for Liberty for several months.

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Rumors naturally fled about that M. Briand and Herr Stresemann had been dickering over the complete evacuation of the Rhineland.

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For months, four of the union's locals had been dickering unsuccessfully with 16 large city bakeries for higher pay and a five-day week.

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For a year, Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab had been dickering with the Russians behind the allies' back, offering to neutralize Austria in return for the evacuation of the Red army.

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Harriman had been dickering hard for Kefauver support, had. moreover, been wooing Kefauver delegates.

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